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Autograss is a new plugin for 3ds max and V-Ray that creates photorealistic grass. It looks pretty sweet to me, especially the feature that allows you to manage the RAM usage of your PC. A quote from the Autograss website: " Autograss uses Happy Digital's advanced memory management system. That means Autograss uses only a fixed amount of RAM no matter how much grass is in the scene, whether it's a one-acre lawn or an entire golf course. No crashes, no nonsense. And it's fully multi-threaded, so all your cores are driven to their full potential." Sounds good! LOL@"Happy" Digital :)There are builds for 3ds Max / 3ds Max Design 2008, 2009, and 2010 in 32-bit and 64-bit

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